Welcome to the Rutgers
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School and Princeton University
MD/PhD Program

Research in medical and biological science relies more on interdisciplinary thought than ever before. The prevalence of team-oriented, collaborative research requires that investigators have the capacity to integrate both the clinical and basic science aspects of medicine. With rapid growth in the body of knowledge and technological sophistication comes the demand that future physician scientists receive in-depth training within and across conventional disciplines in order to excel in basic, translational, and clinical research.

Our program draws on the diverse strengths and resources of premier private and public research institutions and healthcare centers in central New Jersey to facilitate a unique academic environment in which students can hone and integrate their clinical and research acumen.

Drawing on experiences in both clinical medicine and basic research, past and present students in our program have investigated the pathologic mechanisms underlying human disease in diverse fields including:

In addition to clinical and basic-science proficiency, the RWJMS program includes opportunities for professional development, global health work, and the study of health policy and management. Our goal is to ensure that graduates of the MD/PhD program at RWJMS are uniquely prepared to become leaders in biomedical research, academic medicine, and prevention of disease.

Congratulations Allison Murawski for receiving the Executive Women of New Jersey (EWNJ) Scholarship!

August 2018Congratulations Adrienne Viola for receiving a F30, "The Feasability of a Medical Student Mentoring Program to Improve Transition of Care Among Adolescence."

July 2018
Congratulations Sana Ahmad for receiving a R36 from Healthcare Research and Quality to finish her Healthcare Policy PhD on “Quality of Care for Medicaid Patents with Cormid Mental Health and Chronic Physical Conditions”

April 2018Congratulations Bahar Javdan for receiving the NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship entitled "Investigating the impact of the human gut microbiome on the metabolism of oral chemotherapeutic drugs"

March 2018

Congratulations Alex Goglia for winning yet another award for his start-up PhotoPharma - 10K from the Princeton Innovation Forum.

February 2018

Congratulations Grace Ibitamuno who has been awarded a Cancer Epidemiology Education in Special Populations (CEESP) is a summer research grant supported by the National Cancer Institute that provides funding to students pursuing advanced degrees in Epidemiology to work with minority populations at home and/or abroad in cancer research.

April 2017Congratulations Alex Goglia for receiving a NJ Health Foundation award to explore how optogenetics can be used to circumvent treatment side effects.

March 2017Congratulations Sam Kogan for receiving a NJCCR pre-doctoral fellowship entitled "The Role of Cellular Zinc Ion Homeostasis in the Mechanism of Zinc Metallochaperones as Mutant p53 Targeted Anti-Cancer Drugs”

Congratulations to Emann Rabie who has been awarded a Summer Oncology Fellowship at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and a St Baldrick’s Summer Fellow Award

Congratulations to Bekah Gensure and Charles Miller for matching into the following Ophthalmology residency programs: Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City (Bekah) and SUNY Downstate Medical Center (Charles)

November 2015:

Check out our very own student Heather McGowan talking about creating a stem cell model of Down Syndrome